Cyber Security News_

Cyber and data security is vital for any international business traveller. If you are travelling with your mobile, smartphone, laptop or tablet, you will have wide access to company data, and will need to make sure this information is safe. Criminals do not care for...

The recent report from Fortinet on the security threat landscape in the last quarter of 2017, confirmed that cryptojacking attacks have risen sharply in the last 6 months. What is Cryptojacking? Cryptojacking is a tool used to mine digital coinage such as Bitcoin and...

Webinar date: Tue, Apr 3, 2018 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM The 2-sec data protection and privacy team is hosting a webinar to brief on the steps organisations can take with only two months to go. We’ll be covering the latest advice from the ICO as well as covering some common...

It’s that time of year again, when we ask the great and the good in the 2-sec office for their security predictions for 2018. Here are our six top cyber security forecasts for the next 12 months. PREDICTION #1 – LITTLE TOLERANCE FOR NON GDPR COMPLIANT COMPANIES Those...

You may have read reports online of two major flaws in a large number of microprocessors: Spectre and Meltdown. Spectre and Meltdown relate to an apparent vulnerability in chips which may allow the breaking of isolation between programs and operating systems. Whilst...

2-sec is pleased to announce that as of January 1st 2018, all of our penetration tests will be carried out against the new “OWASP Top Ten Standard for Web Applications, 2017”. Luke Vile, Cyber Security Director for 2-sec says; “This new standard means that each...

Luke Vile - our Cyber Security Operations Director has been featured in The Telegraph. He was speaking to Oliver Pickup, Telegraph journalist. The article content is included below. Do staff have too much data access and what should a company do if a breach has...

A whitepaper by CenturyLink Emea has just reported that only 25% of legal sector IT decision-makers said their firms were GDPR ready, despite one in five having experienced an attempted cyber-attack in the past month. Why is there so much apathy surrounding the GDPR,...

If you managed to grab The Times today you will see that our Operations Director, Luke Vile, commented on an article discussing big data/tech firms and Government regulation. Full text as follows: In August, Ms Rudd was dispatched to Silicon Valley, where the biggest...